Undoing a git rebase

Question

Does anybody know how to easily undo a git rebase?

The only way that comes to mind is to go at it manually:

• git checkout the commit parent to both of t

Answer 1

If you successfully rebased against remote branch and can not git rebase --abort you still can do some tricks to save your work and don't have forced pushes. Suppose your current branch that was rebased by mistake is called your-branch and is tracking origin/your-branch

• git branch -m your-branch-rebased # rename current branch
• git checkout origin/your-branch # checkout to latest state that is known to origin
• git checkout -b your-branch
• check git log your-branch-rebased, compare to git log your-branch and define commits that are missing from your-branch
• git cherry-pick COMMIT_HASH for every commit in your-branch-rebased
• push your changes. Please aware that two local branches are associated with remote/your-branch and you should push only your-branch